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If you want to nitpick go all the way. It's fully solar because a long time ago the sun got hot and the solar system got put together and that combination resu
by johnchristopher 5y ago
If you want to nitpick go all the way.
It's fully solar because a long time ago the sun got hot and the solar system got put together and that combination resulted in life and then later some sample of that life built a website with materials extracted from what the sun did to the original mess.
- robocat 5y agoNitpick++: A fair percentage of electricity in the world is powered by other stars, because Uranium didn’t come from our star.
- johnchristopher 5y agoAh, coool. But it's still fair to say it's solar powered, right ? Just not our sun ?
- robocat 5y agoNot really. The transuranics are believed to be mostly created during supernovas (core-collapse supernova nucleosynthesis) and neutron star mergers. Those events are not particularly similar to our sun's normal solar radiation. I think you are grasping at straws (although I'll be honest I don't know what that literally means). And I think the word solar really only applies to our own sun.
- johnchristopher 5y agoThanks for the explanation :). > I think you are grasping at straws (although I'll be honest I don't know what that literally means). Yup, I tried all I could ^^. > And I think the word solar really only applies to our own sun. So be it then. In scifi they always talked about sol-3 anyway and caspix-9, etc..